How Lifelong Discrimination and Legal Inequality Facilitate Sex Trafficking in Women and Girls

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Ferrell-Schweppenstedde ◽  
Jacqui Hunt ◽  
Tsitsi Matekaire
Keyword(s):  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Women And Girls

scholarly journals MEDIA EDUCATION: the fight against post-truth and misinformation on trafficking in women and girls

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. a6en
Author(s):  
Sandra de Souza Machado ◽  
Begoña Sánchez Torrejón ◽  
Víctor Amar Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Young Women ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Women And Girls

Data, discursive and methodological analysis, from the perspective of Communication and Education gender studies, are applied aiming media literacy for a responsive citizenship in the fight against trafficking in women and girls. Questioning gender violence in misinformation, fake news, post-truths, and malicious intentions. Media literacy, co-education and collective awareness function as strategies of action to combat the trafficking of (young) women, which reaches alarming degrees in the 21st century, including during the global pandemic of COVID-19.

Looking the Other Way on Trafficking in Women and Girls

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Veronika Vis-Sommer
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Women And Girls

Female “Deviance” and Pathways to Criminalization in Different Nations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syeda Tonima Hadi ◽  
Meda Chesney-Lind
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Criminological Perspective ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Criminalized Women

Global-level data suggests that the number of women and girls in prison is growing and at a faster rate than the male prison population is. In order to meaningfully address this shift in female deviance and criminalization, more attention should be given on the specific ways that women and girls are labeled “deviants” and subsequently criminalized. Women and girls have been criminalized, imprisoned, and harshly punished for “moral” offenses such as adultery or premarital sex or for violations of dress codes or even for being a member of the LGBTQ community. Women and girls have also been reportedly been imprisoned for running away from their homes (often from abusive situations), for being raped, and even for being forced into prostitution. Furthermore, victims of domestic violence or sex trafficking and sex workers have been administratively detained or simply detained for seeking asylum, having committed no crime. The feminist criminological perspective has widened an understanding of all forms of female deviance. This perspective stresses the importance of contextual analysis and of incorporating unique experiences of women and girls at the intersection of not only gender, race, class, and ethnicity but also nationality, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and immigration or migration status, and against the backdrop of national as well as international conflict. Now the challenge is develop effective solutions both to address female victimization and to end the silencing of women and girls through criminalization on a global level. Effective implementation of a gender-mainstreaming strategy, adopted in United Nations policies such as “the Bangkok Rules,” is one of the proposed solutions.

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